The Last Of Us: Episode 7 - Left Behind (2023) TV Review

Oh dear, after the hugely successful Ep3 pulled the same stunt,
stopping the forward momentum built up from Ep's 4-6 dead for
another (gay) love story (a really tiny bit) falls a bit flatter
this time. We get the necessary back story of Ellie (Bella
Ramsey), her past at the military academy and her relationship
with her room-mate and love, Riley. It's good but the weakest
episode, quite repetitive, a slog, feels like low stakes filler
and curiously like an episode of Stranger Things. Ellie only
spends minutes with Joel this time but those minutes are more
compelling than all the time spent with Riley. A victim of its
excellent policy of only showing one episode a week, leading
viewers to need a massive episode each time.